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Rick Forbess
Rick Forbess is a seventy-two-year-old emerging writer with eight published short fiction pieces. Since retirement from a long career in the mental health field, he has read more, written more, and worked on refining how to approach both.
Juneteenth, 1963
Big Tiny and Polly owned a neighborhood grocery store with two Conoco pumps out front and rarely more than three customers at a time inside. No TV or radio played in the background, no beer or cigarettes sold, and they didn’t bother with a cash register. A narrow counter ran from the front window almost to the back door, two aisles opened perpendicular to the counter, and shelves lined the walls. Other than a well-stocked cold drink box and an old Hotpoint refrigerator filled with dairy products, that was it. I worked as the store’s only employee in the summer of 1963, when I was thirteen and secretly held Cassius Clay as my hero.
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